When her mother leaves Haiti to find work in the US, Sophie is raised by her aunt. Their parting, years later, when her mother sends for her, is as wrenching as the reunion in New York. Though she barely knows her mother they both carry secrets from their homeland that will haunt them forever.
- ISBN10 037570504X
- ISBN13 9780375705045
- Publish Date 18 May 1998 (first published 1 April 1994)
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 18 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Vintage Books
- Edition 2nd Vintage Contemporaries ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 234
- Language English